CORE Social Emotional Learning Overview

Social and emotional learning (SEL) is the process through which children and adults acquire and effectively apply the knowledge, attitudes, and skills necessary to understand and manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain positive relationships, and make responsible decisions. These surveys (using Itembank assessments) are free and available to all Illuminate users.

CORE Social Emotional Learning or SEL Surveys are available to installed and shared by your Customer Success Manager.

Why is SEL Important?

Children are exposed to an increasingly complex world through media and have unmediated access to information and social contacts through various technologies. In many communities, there is less support for and involvement in institutions that foster children’s social emotional development and character (Weissberg & Durlack, 2015)

Today’s educators face the major challenge of educating an increasingly multicultural and multilingual group of students from racially, ethnically, and economically diverse backgrounds.

Teachers, student-support staff, and community agencies serve students with different abilities and motivation for engaging in learning, behaving positively, and performing academically.

It has been estimated that 40 to 60% of U.S. high school students across urban, suburban, and rural schools are “chronically disengaged” (Klem & Connell, 2004).

The life conditions of children have changed dramatically during the last century (Weissberg & Greenberg, 1998; Weissberg, Walberg, O’Brien, & Kuster, 2003).

There is broad agreement that today’s schools must offer more than academic instruction to prepare students for life and work (National Research Council, 2012).

Increasing number of state and local educational agencies adopting social and emotional learning standards (Durlak et. al., 2011)

Social and emotional learning (SEL) is the process through which children and adults acquire and effectively apply the knowledge, attitudes, and skills necessary to understand and manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain positive relationships, and make responsible decisions.

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